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Adom FM’s Ballot Box train underway at Ablekuma South

The Adom FM Ballot Box train is currently underway at the Mamprobi Neighbourhood Centre also known as ‘Christmas in Egypt’ in the Ablekuma South constituency.The...

Voters Register: EC inaugurates committee to expunge double names

The Electoral Commission (EC) has inaugurated an adjudication committee to help expunge the names of multiple registrants from the new voters' register.The 16-member multi-stakeholder...

Minister chides Asiedu Nketia over Banda clashes

The Deputy Bono Region Minister has attributed the skirmishes that erupted at some polling stations at Banda between some military officers and prospective voters...

EC announces date for Voters Register mop-up exercise

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced the date for its planned mop-up exercise for the ongoing voters' registration exercise.The Commission will officially end the...

EC replies NDC’s Dzifa Gomashie on voters’ registration claims about Ketu South

The Electoral Commission (EC) has said a claim by an aspiring Member of Parliament that the voters' registration exercise at Ketu South in the...

Prof Opoku-Agyemang registers as a voter

Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Running Mate of the Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the December 7 General Election, has successfully...

Old voters ID cards still valid for business transactions – EC

The old voters’ identity card is still valid for identification related to socio-economic transactions until the Electoral Commission finishes the compilation of the the...

Adom FM’s Ballot Box train goes to Ablekuma South on August 7

After a successful community interaction between the electorate and their political leaders in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern region, the next stop for...

What Kweku Baako thinks about Prof. Ahwoi’s ‘Working with Rawlings’ book

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr, is of the view that National Democratic Congress' (NDC) stalwart, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi's 'Working...

EC investigates multiple registration at centres

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, has set up an Adjudication Review Committee to investigate cases of multiple voter registration...

Voters register: Kennedy Agyapong ‘exposes’ Sammy Gyamfi

Assin Central Member of Parliament has dismissed claims by Sammy Gyamfi that violence has marred the voters’ registration exercise in his constituency.Mr Gyamfi, National...

Atiwa East: Disqualified NPP aspirant hopeful court will rule in his favour

Eric Ofori Agyarko, a disqualified parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has expressed optimism in an Accra High Court to rule in...

Court sets date to decide NPP’s fate at Atiwa East

An Accra High Court will on August 24, 2020, give its ruling on the legal tussle between Eric Ofori Agyarko and the New Patriotic...

Osofo Kyiri Abosom has a message from God to Ghanaians

The Founder and Flagbearer of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM) believes he has been sent by God to rescue the country from the claws...

Voters’ register: What Kennedy Agyapong thinks about EC exceeding target [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Voters’ register: What Kennedy Agyapong thinks of EC’s exceed targetMember of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has reacted to the Electoral...

Omane Acheampong ‘begs’ Mahama ahead of election 2020

Ghanaian gospel musician, Nicholas Omane Acheampong, has appealed to former President John Mahama to step aside for President Nana Akufo-Addo to complete a second...

Only names of Ghanaians must be on voters register – EC

Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, on Monday said eligible voters must be Ghanaians and not foreigners.She said the onus was on...

My work will secure me another term – Says Akufo-Addo as he gets new voter ID card

"In 2016, I asked the people of Ghana to give me a chance and see my handiwork, they gave me the chance so it...

Voter’s register: Abronye warns Asiedu Nketia over Banda chaos [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Voter’s register: Abronye warns Asiedu Nketia over Banda chaosThe Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as...

Akufo-Addo and Mahama must be ready to make these 10 commitments to win election 2020 – Agyinasare [Audio]

The General Overseer of the Perez Chapel has highlighted 10 commitments that the governing New Patriotic Party and opposition National Democratic Congress must make...

Full Text: Seventh edition of EC’s ‘Let the Citizen Know’ press series

ELECTORAL COMMISSION PRESS BRIEFING “LET THE CITIZEN KNOW” ON 3RD AUGUST, 2020 PRESENTED BY THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, CORPORATE SERVICESGood morning ladies and gentlemen of...

EC exceeds 15 million voters’ registration target

The Electoral Commission (EC) says it has exceeded its target of registering 15 million eligible Ghanaian voters across the country.This was announced by the...

I will resign if Akufo-Addo wins 2020 polls – Kwaku Boahen

Deputy Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwaku Boahen, has promised to resign if President Nana Akufo-Addo wins the 2020 December polls.Mr...

MFWA cites Abronye DC, others for use of abusive language on radio

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has cited Kwame Baffoe (Abronye DC), Regional Chairman of the NPP in the Bono Region, as the...

Drama in Supreme Court as Tsatsu Tsikata refuses to argue NDC’s review case

There was drama at the Supreme Court on Thursday as renowned lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata refused to argue the NDC’s review of the voters’ register...

Ade Coker sends important message to NDC members

Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ade Coker, has sent a message of caution to party members ahead of the...

2020 Election: Prof. Jane Opoku-Agyemang begins campaign [Photos]

Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has started campaigning ahead of the 2020 December 7 polls.The Vice President...

Election 2020: Aspirants to file nomination forms online — EC

For the first time in the country's electoral history, aspirants in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections will not physically pick nomination forms from...

This is what will happen to Obiri Boahen if NPP loses 2020 polls (Listen)

JoyNews/AdomNews · I will kill myself if... NPPs Obiri BoahenDeputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has vowed to...

Sam Korankye Ankrah’s powerful ‘election-winning’ prayer for Jane and John ticket [Video]

 Apostle General of the Royalhouse Chapel International, Reverend Sam Korankye Ankrah, has put together prophetic words in prayer for the newly outdoored...

Jane Naana ‘turns heads’ with looks at unveiling ceremony [Photos]

The running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, yesterday, turned heads with her new look during a ceremony to...

EC reveals number of Ghanaians registered so far

The Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed it has so far registered over 12 million Ghanaians in the ongoing voters' registration exercise.According to the Chairperson,...

Jean Mensa begs party agents to use Commission’s laid down rules

Chairperson for the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, has pleaded with the Ghanaian citizenry, particularly agents of the various political parties to use the...

2020 Elections: EC to make presidential and parliamentary nomination forms available online

The Electoral Commission (EC), in view of the novel Covid-19 pandemic, will for the first time make presidential and parliamentary nomination forms available online....

Full Text: Sixth edition of EC’s ‘Let the Citizen Know’ series

LET THE CITIZEN KNOWPRESENTATION BY CHAIRPERSON OFTHE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, MRS JEAN MENSAON MONDAY 27TH JULY, 2020 AT 10:00amAT THE IPAC ROOMIt is a pleasure...

Six foreigners arrested for attempting to register at Kaneshie

Six foreigners, who allegedly attempted to register in the ongoing voter registration at the Kaneshie Cripples Home Centre, Accra, have been arrested by the...

Rawlings pays respects to late Atta Mills [Photos]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings, in the early hours of Friday, July 24, 2020, paid his respects to former President John Evans Atta Mills.Mr...

EC extends registration for persons 50-years and above, health workers, security personnel

The Electoral Commission (EC) has said that it has put in place further arrangements for more specialised groups of citizens to participate in the...

Delegates voted against me for not holding ministerial position – Assibey Yeboah reveals

MP for New Juaben South, Hon Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah has hinted that the delegates voted against him in the party’s recent Parliamentary Primaries...

Vigilantism, health safety risks at voters’ registration centres worrying – CODEO

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) have noted with concern, some of the challenges with the on-going voter’s registration exercise in the country.This...